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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
September 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 28
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
From:
Archibald Campbell Tait
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
1870-9
Source of text:
RS:HS 17.424
Summary:

Expresses concern over Church of England schools. Suggests appeal to raise funds.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[September 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 91
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
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From:
Darwin, Emma
To:
Darwin, H. E.
Date:
[September 1870]
Source of text:
DAR 219.9: 92
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Darwin Family Letters
From:
Asa Gray
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 159: 87
Summary:

Statement of sales of U. S. edition of Origin.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Sofia Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (Софья Васильевна Ковалевская)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
1 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 169: 53
Summary:

Accepts CD’s offer to order books from the Royal Society Library.

VOK asks for information about W. B. Carpenter’s dredging expedition in the Porcupine.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
J. Peter Lesley
Date:
[1 September 1870]
Source of text:
APS (no i.d.)
Summary:

Has received, through the good offices of the Smithsonian Institution, a number of back issues as well as current issues of the Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society of Philadelphia. The best way to send these volumes is by way of the Smithsonian.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Robert Main
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 12.285
Summary:

Sends some remeasured double star positions from the Radcliffe Observatory, together with comments about other double star observations.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
George Bentham
Date:
2 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/2 f.170, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project
From:
William Selwyn
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[2 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 15.512
Summary:

Has been trying to make pendulum curves. Believes they may help explain the different sunspot forms. Thanks JH for the spectroscopic observation memoirs.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
William Winwood Reade
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
3 Sept 1870
Source of text:
DAR 176: 39
Summary:

Could not go up the Niger, as trading steamers are trying to keep their trade in the dark.

Has seen several albinos, but no blushing. Thinks blacks do blush.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
John Murray
Date:
4 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
National Library of Scotland (John Murray Archive) (Ms.42152 f. 211)
Summary:

Variation is a much better looking volume than Origin due to quality of paper and binding. Hopes JM will attend to this point in Descent. Printers have sent "splendid lot" of proofs.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
William Selwyn
Date:
[4 September 1870]
Source of text:
RS:HS 24.330
Summary:

Thanks WS for August 29 photographs. Is sending JH's son's [John's] certificate. Pities the 'fallen Emperor' [Napoleon III].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
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From:
Alfred Russel Wallace
To:
John Birkbeck Nevins
Date:
4 September 1870
Source of text:
Jeremy Norman and Co. (bookseller)
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Vladimir Onufrievich Kovalevsky (Владимир Онуфриевич Ковалевский)
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
5 Sept [1870]
Source of text:
DAR 169: 80
Summary:

Will order the first set of casts from Murray.

Thanks CD for a book for his wife from the Royal Society Library.

His brother [Alexander] is delighted at being referred to in CD’s work [Descent 1: 205].

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
David Boyle
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
RB MSS M1, Library, Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne.Published in Pretlove (2012), p. 76
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
George Bentham
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, f. 448
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Ferdinand von Mueller
To:
Joseph Hooker
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
RBG Kew, Kew correspondence, Australia, Mueller, 1858-70, ff. 446-7
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
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From:
Henry Reeks
To:
Alfred Russel Wallace
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
British Library, The: BL Add. 46435 ff. 192-193
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Alfred Russel Wallace Correspondence Project
From:
Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker
To:
Henry Bolus
Date:
6 September 1870
Source of text:
JDH/2/3/3 f.15, The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Hooker Project